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The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08
FOR THE SALE
If you are in favor of the Wood local
option law, vote the ticket
AGAINST THE SALE
OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS.
Be sure you make no mistake.
OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS.


There is no doubt in the minds OF
Christian scholars that our Savior made
intoxicating wine. A few scholarly
men have hoped to find otherwise, as
they thought this inconsistent with GER
tain passages of scripture. But the
weight of evidence is the other way
The st. Louis Presbyterian speaking
the best thought of its learned and con-
servative church, says:-"Kitto to the
contrary, the weight of authority, in
Guiding the missionaries who have in
%vestigated the question during their
long residence in that country is that
there ia no foundation for the stwo-w ine'
theory" DR.. Geo. L. Leyburn in a
sermon recently repudiated that error
as hurtful to the cause of temperance.
DR. j.. A. Quarles IN his letter to the
Intelligencer of August ID, 1887, said:
81 boiiu~s That Christ made anu drank
Wine that was fermented and was in
toxicable. i believesthat such wine was
used at the Institution of the Lords
Supper, and should still be used" DR..
CLANCY in his communication said =
''My salvation does not depend on nv
making or not making, on my selling
not selling, on my drinking or not
drinking fermented liquors. To DEM
THIS IS to charge Jesus, himself, wiM
nm" This has been the belief of the
historic churches, and we could 90 OH
pile up testimony upon testimony,
we choose rather to give here on
this point, the views of learned @octors
Of divinity who differ frna us on the
question:. The Bible itself
s full OF evidence against this fond
md foolish fancy, in the-ou testament
nd in-tho new. God repeatedly
'lessed wine, i~ntoxicable wine; : Christ
made it, and gave it unto others to
rink. The Corinthian Christians got
upon the sacramental wine;
nd he must be blind indeed who can
cad the Bible and not see that the wine
which it mentioned was really wine
nd not must. Why not? The Bible
caches temperance and not asceticism
+ prohibition. The Lord left all
means of sin in the world, and sub
of temptation. 1t is to him who
these temptations that the
rOwn is offered. l-.-....
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

No man has ever before in this coun-
try received such an ovation as was
this week extended to President
Cleveland at St, Louis.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

Mr.. Ed. Nolan having resigned from
the state executive committee, Hon. r.
A.. Hicklin, OF this city, was, at st.
Louis, this week, chosen to fill the
position. We congratulate you, Bob.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoris,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, sine gave them Castoria,
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

James Gordon Bennett has started a
-"amspaper in Paris. TO be known as
h ~European Herald. His New York
journal is the foremost newspaper of
the world, and Americans may rest
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

SANKEY'S expedition is reported as
progressing without any obstacles
other than those the country offers.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

This county Is not dominated by
saloons" The assertion that the men
who oppose The Wood law necessarily
favor saloons is false.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

The Post says, "Vote as you pray"
How does it pray? We understand it
t o hold that religion is a mere specula-
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

We have complied with the request
of the Post, stepped aside and let Mr..
Shewalter answer for himself. We
hope our contemporary will be pleased
with the manner in which the gentle.
man acquits himself. AT any rate
there can't DE any misunderstanding a:
to the meaning of what he writes.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08
TO the Farmers.

We have a few Of Bowen Grain and Seec
Separators that will be sold at cost. Farmers
in want of clean, good seed wheat VIII 90
well to buy one.
], W. REINHAkT & Co..
angling JOSEPH HOOK.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

"Local option is going like wild fire
in Florida" Local option has been
~''adopted" in every county in Missouri
where the Wood law has been submit
ted, but IN quite a number of towns
and counties the law has been rejected.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

Dallas county defeated the Wood
prohibition law last Saturday.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

St. Louis Republican Iowa
prohibitionists are logical In making
brutal and unnecessary domiciliary
visitation a companion feature to theil
foolish sumptnary law. Both are out
RACES upon the liberty of the citizen.
but both are in line with what Cotton
Mather taught and the witch-burneri
decreed."
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

Harrisonvs = lie, Keytesa Brunswick
and Slater have voted on and defeated
the Wood local option law this week.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

The votes on the Wood law are going
the other way as 1t is coming to he bet
ter understood.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

1t is, as Artemus Ward used to say,
q little sspecooliar how some of these
ami prohibitionists in towns and coun-
ties where they know the Wood law
can carry, keep Oh prating that loca
option is not prohibition. That is
little thin. A man hanged by loca
eotiou would be just as dead as though
s,spended by a state statute.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08
Cash for

The highest cash price paid for wheat, al
the Model Roller MiiPs, Lexington. sepSt4
". +. hERDoLsF.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

The Wood law was defeated in Cald-
we'll county last Wednesday.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

The following is from the st. Paul
John says that the wave OF o
is nightly rolling through the length
and breadth OF the land.' Let us see how
in rolls in Iowa. There are, in that
state, 116 wholesalers and 3,4l5 retailers
paying special license fees to the United
States government, and carrying on q
lively liquor traffic. That kind of roll
ing isn't very healthful tor the wavel'
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08
THE TICKET.

If you are opposed to the Wood
local option law, vote the ticket which
reads
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

Slater, Saline county, defeated the
Wood law, Monday.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

The president will be in Kansas City
October IS.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

Vote before you leave for Kansas
City on October IS.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

Let the election be quiet, orderly and
decent. Be polite, eve if you are in
suited by being called a whiskyite.
You know your own business, and
propose to continue to control your
self.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

Dallas, Texas, News:-''The demo.
cratic party Of Texas has never by any
declaration either prescribed or dis
carded the temperance question as a
test of democratic fealty. But it does
stand tacitly committed to the declara-
ton of the national democracy through
its representatives in convention as
sembled: 'We oppose sumptuary laws
meaning prohibitory laws regarding
drink as well as others Of like charac-
ter-'which vex the citizen and inter-
fere with individual liberty" So, here
is another very able and well informed
newspaper which agrees with the In
telligencer's view of what ''sumptu-
airy" has meant i'll democratic plat
forms.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

Harrisonville defeated the Wood law
Tuesday.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

Hamilton defeated the Wood law
Tuesday.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

Ke%ytesville defeated the Wood law
Tuesday.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

Vote for the sale Of Intoxicating
liquors.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

Vote next Thursday. Don't forget
the day.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

The Christian Observer says of DR..
Frierson's letter which it had previous
ly printed article was intended,
as we apprehend, to point out the best
Christ to pursue, IN opposing intemper-
aRce. 1t was that in their official char
acter as ministers they should not dis
cuss, IN the pulpit, the political ques-
ton of prohibition. He did not deny
their right as citizens, Oh other days
than the Sabbath, 10 take the rostrum
and advocate the political measure.
This is a question of prudence for
each one to decide according to the
circumstances in which he is placed"
Exactly. No one denies the minister's
civil right to take the stump on politi-
cal questions. There is no written law
against it. alt is a question of pru-
dence for each one to decide" But
there is an unwritten law against the
prudence of ministers entering heated
SOiltCoto "HCIC IuCll LlCulUClS
may be greatly divided in sentiment
without loss of their religious unity or
zeal. 1t is this Christian prudence
which should be observed, especially as
the unframed debater of political ques-
tons seems so prone to fall from argu-
ment into personalities. The Observer
seems to be afraid that ministers will
think it has gone so far as to deny their
civil right to enter such a debate as is
contemplated. We do not think it
could be- SO misconstrued, or DR..
Frierson, either. But, so far as the
doctor is concerned, for other n bet
ter reasons, he denies the expediency
n propriety of ministers advocatinaI
prOhibitOry laws at all j
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

Post-Dispatc h:-"Some of our ex-
changes persist in using misleading
language about the state local option
law. A special telegram in the Globe
Democrat of to-day announces that scon-
trary to the general expectation, local
option is defeated in Caldwell county.
Here the correspondent fails to assert
what he means. The people of Cald-
we'll county have eimply voted on the
subject of prohibition, as provided for
by the local option law, and have de-
feated it.' Exactly They have had
their "local option regarding the law
by voting it down, which was the cor
rect thing to do.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

Inc New York state democratic con
vention, a few days ago, made THU
declaration as M of the pIanks in IL
platform:-'We favor a revised exc1ao
law applicable without unjust discrifmnn1
.4$ tom s4EaHsRess The s.s1a Preston .1e:
ips; Herndon circuit. A. E. Houston; fou
la and HIgginsvilIe, j.. Y. Busby; Odessa M!
,it, C. IT. Wallace; Brownsville az" zen 8
fIg7trrt Tar Ga9ghses; iesdknelinau like other
proper loca should bd anr|
piled in lesssning local burdens and toll
the reduction of local taxation" Here
is another authority that CONSTITUTES the
word "sumptuary" as opposed to pro-
hibitioD. That is democratic doctrine |
and the democratic definition of the
word.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

We have endeavored to answer
good many people in this prohibition
campaign, and we have something to
say of DR.. Herrick Johnson's article
to-day particularly to illustrate one
point, j. g., the impudence of the as.
sumption for the prohibition party that
its aim is simply the adjustment of the
saloon, in view of the radical legisla-
ton it has secured against the manu-
factire, even for one's0own- use, of
alcoholic liquors. There is not q great.
er piece of audacity imaglnaDr. So1t
is with this Wood lAv,i' ID not only
the saloon which it strikes but every
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08

DR.. Leyburn is a manly antagonist in
an argument, and does not ask either
for quarter or sympathy if when he hits
hard he gets a jolt in return, still he
thinks we were a little unfair in the
opening of our argument two weeks
ago. when we attributed to him self
h~nmpiaeency as to hip previuus article.
He SAYS he referred not to what he had
MIL and John M6at We cheerfully
make this statement, though we honest
ly made our former one, for we believe
DR.. Leyburn to be as modest as he is
learned, and earnest for good, even if
we cannot always agree with him.
The dispatch from Kingston an
nouncing the defeat of the Wood law
in Caldwell county concludes with these
words: 1.-THE defeat Of the. law Is due
to its obnoxious features, many who
favor temperance voting against it,"
That is the point. Its obnoxious fea-
lures should defeat it everywhere.
Every true friend of temperance should
vote against a law the severity of which
will bring the cause into contempt.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-10-08
week1y gntelligenfer
OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY PAPER.

Election next Thursday, October Is.
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to exist, and we can assure the doctor,
euen if1Oe are not q prohibition5st, that
could his views be impressed upon the
masses OF his party he would not in
two weeks have a corporal's guard OF
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-13
ny OWN SHALL CONE.
By JOHN BURROUGHS.


Serene hold nay hands and wait.
Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor Sea;
Irave no more 'gainst time nor fate,
For, 10! my own shall come to me.
stay my haste, I make delays,
For what avail this eager pace?
stand amid the eternal ways,
c. And what IL mine shall know my face.
Asleep, awake, by night or day,
The friends seek are seeking me;
Nor wind can drive my bark astrsy,
Nor change the tide of destiny.
What matter If stand aloneH
Iwait with joy the coming years;
Nv heart shall reap where it has sown,
And gather up its fruits and tears.
The waters know their own and draw
The brook that springs on yonder height;
30 flows the good with equal law
Unto the soul Of pure delight.
The flowers nodding in the wind
Is ready pTghted to the bee;
And. maiden, why that look unkindP
For 10 l thy lover seeketh thee.
The stars come nightly to the sky,
The tidal waves unto the sea;
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high.
Can keep my own away from me.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-13

GAFFs for fighting cocks are about
one and half inches long. A spear
of highest tempered steel is welded
out of short circular stock. The spur
is little bigger around than darning
needle and sharper pointed. The stock
Is set into q soft leather band about
one by two and q half inches to be
laced around the birds leg. One square
strike through the head with . spur
lays . dead cock in the pit every time.
The best gaffs cost SO the set Of four,
two to each bird. These are American
made. The cheapest cost 81. so the set
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-13
Perseverance.

Years ago German boy read OF the
siege of Troy, and made up his mind to
find the ruins of that ancient city. Troy
had persisted 5000 years ago-if, in-
deed, it ever existed at all. But, said
the little German, II will find it,
though" Though poor lad, shaving
at work until bedtime, he procured
books and taught himself six or seven
languages. He pushed on and pros
pered, until as merchant he had made
fortune Every step of this study and
money-making was taken with the aim
of fulfilling the vow of his boyhood. In
due time he started eastward with
company of laborers, and for long, long
years pursued his search. At last he
found Troy. His discovery was SEN
sation through all Europe. A short
time ago the treasure of gold. silver.
and bronze dug out of the palace OF the
Trojan King were exhibited at South
Kensin9ton. For 8, 900 years the buried
ruir~ chat city had lain covered with
sand, and by many it was regarded
only as the tabled creation of poetry,
DR.. Schliemann, at his own stinted ex-
pense, and by his own amazing enter
prise, proved the discovery to the
world. Think of it. A poor lad, learn
ing languages, making money, spend
ing seven years or more in far-away
deserts, sustained through lifetime by
one fixed resolution. He vowed in boy
hood that he would find Troy, and he
did find it. This German lad said,
"Put down my name." and when life
was far spent he succeeded in hacking
his way into the temple of fame.
Now, If we can find truth and God,
if we can find "Glory, honor, immortal
ity, and eternal life," is it not worth
while, for the sake of these imperish-
able possessions, to summon up our ut
termost resolution and to pursue our
aim with diligence through the swift
years Of our mortal pilgrimage? @They
do it for corruptible crown, but we
for an incorruptible. Z" Do it with thy
might r..
Write on shy h6aEt f6is holy principle: :.
No6fY resolve ara dOas thou reoolvoot
Thou shalt nds dc TN victoGy GROWN th3. hEokA,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-13
The MiSer'S Clutch.

.The money, sir? the money -holdl" he cried
Not that! cannot part with that"-and died
Pope's picture of the miser making
his will is typical of avarice in its last
moments, everywhere. Nothing is more
pitiful than the impotent persistency OF
covetousness that has been the ruling
passion of lifetime.
Some one has told, in the Lewiston
Me.) Journal, the story of Hugh
M, who died in Durham, forty
years ago. He was q determined man
and very penuriouk He died at an ad-
vanced age. On his death-bed he kept
his right hand closely clutched As he
drew his last breath he frightened his
hold. Everybody there knew what he
held. 1t was the key to the chest in
which he kept his gold.
As his nerveless hands Enclosed, the
key dropped from them and clattered
against the bedside. As if to hold it
even after his soul had passed away,
the miser had tied the key about his
wrist by q strong cord and had grasped
it as long as life remained. He had
wanted to take his gold with him. They
buried him just as he was, with the key
to his money-chest dangling about his
wrist, and to-day the key is in his
grave, turned to rust probably.
"And what became of the gold?"
"Oh, the heirs took care of that just
the same. They split open the chest
with an Ak and divided the gold and let
the miser sleep on with the key about
his wrist.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-13
Why Some Lakes Are Salt.

The cause of the sadness of some
American lakes is too patent to require
many words of explanation. It is prob
able that, when the continents were
raised from the sea, the lake-basins had
been already formed, and came up,
therefore, brimful of water. In the
northern and eastern part of this cont.
nent, where the supply from rain and
snowfall exceeds the loss by evapora.
ton, the salt, being continuously carried
away through their outlets, has became
so diluted as to be an imperceptible
quantity. In arid regions, as the Pa.
cific slope and the country about the
Caspian, where the evaporation was in
excess of the supply, the water-level
of the lakes continuously sank until, on
account of the diminished extent Of
surface, the equilibrium of loss and
gain was attained. Hence the exceed
ing sadness Of Great Salt Lake, the
Dead Sea, etc. For like reason the
Mediterranean contains more salt rela-
lively than that of the ocean. Evapora-
ton exceeding the supplies from the
rivers and rainfall, it requires con-
slant current through the Strait OF
Gibraltar. The same is true of the
Red Sea, causing like current through
the Strait of Babel andeb. Other
salt or brackish lakes probably owe
their sadness to the supplies from the
land. Water being the most general
of all solvents, the rains gather up the
chloride of sodium from the soils and
the disintegrating rocks, and where the
streams fall into lakes whose only out
let is evaporation, the land itself must
be constant source of saline supply,
and their waters must become more
and more salt, until their capacity as a
solvent has been reached.
The Utah Basin must once have been
filed to its brim with ocean-water.
The outlet has been evaporation. The
lake, receding to its present level, has
left many evidences of its former ex-
tent Popular Science Monthly for
Jislv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-13

Dr.. MORGAN DIX, the chief pastor OF
Trinity Church corporation, the wealth
lest in America, receives SIS, 900
yearly. DR.. William L. Taylor of the
Broadway Tabernacle gets the same
amount He does literary work and
lecturing that brings his income up to
$4,000.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-13

A few years after my visit to Broad
Mountain the dead body Of man was
found under an apple tree by some hunters,
who. having the true feeling of humanity,
proceeded to bury it there. Great was
their surprise when they unearthed three
human skeletons. However, they inferred
him with the skeletons, and need say that,
as that family we're united in life, SO were
they now in death.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-13

As they came within few rods from the
cabin, they noticed that the door was open,
but saw no one. nor did any familiar sound
fall upon their ears; and their hearts beat
faster as they came nearer, and they
paused when they came to the door, as if
to hear some familiar sounds, or wait for
Edith to welcome them in.
But they waited in vain; no sounds were
heard. no words spoken, no Edith ap-
peared-all was silent save the echoing
peals that shook the earth.
For a moment they looked at each other
and then walked in; the silence was soon
broken by the son pointing to pools of
blood, and saying in voice of agony,
Father! Oh father! look there!"
As Mr.. Brennan saw the pools of blood
he turned pale, his lips quivered, and he
took hold of chair to support himself,
and uttered in a broken voice Of anguish,
aMy Godi Where are they?"
Without saying any more 10 each other
they looked in each room for the missing
ones, but the only answer they got was a
dirge from frog, whose notes pierced their
hearts. Remembering the ruf6an's threat
concerning watery grave, they went to
explore the dark waters of the dam, and
the scene before them was enough to
drive them distracted.
For in the waters embrace lay two ia
miliar forms with the silence of death inn
printed upon their brows, and from their
sides the blood was oozing out, contaminat-
ing the transparency Of the water. As
Mr.. Brennan stood on the bank of The dam
and gazed on that horrifying spectacle for
o moment he raised his hands implosingly
toward heaven. and. utterinG few inaudi-